MP Eduardo Bolsonaro, son of the President of Brazil, announced that he had the coronavirus

The federal deputy Eduardo Bolsonaro, son of the President of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, was diagnosed this Friday with COVID-19, two days after his return with the Brazilian delegation that went to the United Nations and participated in various events in New York, as announced on its social networks.

The MP is the third member of the Bolsonaro-led delegation that traveled to New York to attend the United Nations General Assembly tested positive for the coronavirus, along with the Minister of Health, Marcelo Queiroga, and a diplomat.

On your Twitter account, Eduardo Bolsonaro, who had already received the first dose of the coronavirus vaccine, said he was “fine” and had already started treatment, although he did not specify.

“Despite the diagnosis, I feel good and started treatment immediately“Writes Eduardo Bolsonaro, the third of the president’s sons and a defender of the so-called”early treatmentWhich has no scientific evidence.

The son of the head of state had received the first dose of Pfizer’s vaccine against COVID-19, but today, it has again questioned its effectiveness and called into question the so-called “health passport”.

“We know the vaccines were made faster (than usual)», He indicated. “I received the first dose of Pfizer and contracted COVID. Does this mean the vaccine is unnecessary? I do not believe. But this is one more argument against the health passport“, complete.

The Brazilian delegation returned to the country last Wednesday after a denial speech by Bolsonaro at the UN, in which he defended the use of remedies of questionable effectiveness against COVID-19 and opposed the “health passport “.

However, the delegation returned without the Minister of Health, who remained in New York after testing positive as the delegation prepared to return to Brazil.

At New York, Queiroga participated in various official activities, during a meeting of Bolsonaro with the British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, and meetings with other personalities, such as the former Chilean president Michelle bachelet, now United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.

Besides, roamed the UN compound and the streets of New York, in which he was seen with Bolsonaro and part of the Brazilian delegation eating pizza on a sidewalk because the president could not enter restaurants because he is not vaccinated.

(With information from EFE)

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